1. The Oakland Police Department is still disproportionately stopping and searching Black residents who have done nothing wrong, the Chron$ reports, citing OPD stop data. Police often cite “reasonable suspicion,’’ which is an extremely vague legal standard, for stopping and searching Black people in Oakland. Of those stopped by OPD for reasonable suspicion from September 2014 to September 2015, 70 percent were Black, even though African Americans make up 26.5 percent of the city’s population. In addition, the vast majority of those stops did not result in an arrest or the discovery of contraband.

3. California homeowners who have installed rooftop solar panels are increasingly angry about a provision in a new law signed by Governor Brown that excludes home solar owners from receiving subsidies for going green, the LA Times$ reports. The law states that only large utilities, like PG&E, can receive the subsidies when they build giant solar or wind farms.